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Catherine Hardwicke

Highest Rated: 100% Half the Picture (2018)

Lowest Rated: 0% Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)

Birthday: Oct 21, 1955

Birthplace: Cameron, Texas, USA

A prolific art director and production designer in the 1980s and 1990s, Catherine Hardwicke made an impressive leap to the director's chair with 2003's harrowing "Thirteen." Inspired by the turbulent life of an ex-boyfriend's teenage daughter, the indie drama about a young girl's descent into a dangerous lifestyle was widely praised by critics and audiences alike for its gritty honesty. Hardwicke followed this with "Lords of Dogtown" (2005), an unsentimental look at teen skateboarders in the early eighties. In 2008, she tackled the biggest project of her directorial career with "Twilight," a Gothic romance about a schoolgirl's budding relationship with a young, brooding vampire. Despite the fantastical nature of the subject matter, Hardwicke brought her trademark realism to the project; a combination that was the key to her status as one of Hollywood's most challenging and independent-minded directors.

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Highest rated movies

100% 69% Half the Picture Watchlist
94% 77% Three Kings
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85% 62% Fly Away
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81% 77% Thirteen
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74% 93% Tombstone
Watchlist 71% 68% Miss You Already Watchlist 70% 88% Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Watchlist
69% 69% Stargirl
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68% 68% Suburbia
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68% 52% Laurel Canyon
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Catherine Hardwicke

Catherine Hardwicke Catherine Hardwicke Catherine Hardwicke at arrivals for MISS BALA Premiere, Regal LA LIVE, Los Angeles, CA January 30, 2019. Photo By: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Catherine Hardwicke at arrivals for The Premiere of THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF, WGA Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, November 25, 2008. Photo by: Dee Cercone/Everett Collection Catherine Hardwicke at arrivals for The Premiere of THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF, WGA Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, November 25, 2008. Photo by: Dee Cercone/Everett Collection Catherine Hardwicke at arrivals for Premiere TWILIGHT, Mann Village and Bruin Theaters, Los Angeles, CA, November 17, 2008. Photo by: Dee Cercone/Everett Collection Catherine Hardwicke at arrivals for RED RIDING HOOD Premiere, Grauman''s Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles, CA March 7, 2011. Photo By: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection THE NATIVITY STORY, director Catherine Hardwicke (front, left), Hiam Abbass, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Mary, Oscar Isaac as Joseph, on set, 2006. 2006. ©New Line Cinema THIRTEEN, Holly Hunter, director Catherine Hardwicke on the set, 2003, (c) Fox Searchlight RED RIDING HOOD, from left: Amanda Seyfried, director Catherine Hardwicke, on set, 2011. ph: Kimberly French/©Warner Bros. View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
21% 67% Mafia Mamma Director,
Executive Producer 		$2.0M 2023
42% 79% Prisoner's Daughter Director,
Executive Producer 		- 2022
70% 88% Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Self $28.8K 2022
No Score Yet 29% Tell It Like a Woman Director,
Screenwriter 		- 2022
38% 74% Don't Worry Darling Executive Producer $45.3M 2022
69% 69% Stargirl Executive Producer - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Don't Look Deeper Director,
Executive Producer 		- 2020
22% 63% Miss Bala Director,
Executive Producer 		$15.0M 2019
100% 69% Half the Picture Self $21.6K 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dirty Lies Producer - 2016
71% 68% Miss You Already Director,
Executive Producer 		$1.2M 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet We the Economy: Money 1 -- Fed Head Director - 2014
33% 31% Plush Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		$2.8K 2013
85% 62% Fly Away Executive Producer - 2012
10% 39% Red Riding Hood Director,
Executive Producer 		$37.7M 2011
48% 72% Twilight Director $191.4M 2008
37% 76% The Nativity Story Director $37.6M 2006
55% 81% Lords of Dogtown Director,
Writer 		$11.0M 2005
81% 77% Thirteen Director,
Writer 		$4.6M 2003
68% 52% Laurel Canyon Production Design $3.7M 2002
42% 72% Vanilla Sky Production Design $100.6M 2001
23% 50% Antitrust Production Design $11.0M 2001
94% 77% Three Kings Production Design $60.7M 1999
65% 44% The Newton Boys Production Design $10.3M 1998
33% 42% Mad City Production Design $10.6M 1997
68% 68% Suburbia Production Design $656.2K 1996
60% 54% 2 Days in the Valley Production Design $11.1M 1996
45% 62% Tank Girl Production Design $3.8M 1995
0% 12% Car 54, Where Are You? Production Design $1.1M 1994
56% 66% Freaked Production Design $14.2K 1993
33% 46% Posse Production Design $16.4M 1993
74% 93% Tombstone Production Design $55.9M 1993
10% 46% Passed Away Production Design $3.8M 1992
35% 55% Mr. Destiny Art Director $15.4M 1990
17% 68% Brain Dead Production Design - 1990
No Score Yet 14% Martians Go Home! Production Design $131.3K 1990
62% 71% I'm Gonna Git You Sucka Production Design $11.8M 1988
No Score Yet 71% Thrashin' Production Design - 1986

TV

Credit
86% 76% Under the Bridge Director 2024
93% 72% Cabinet of Curiosities Director 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet What Happens in Hollywood Self 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Don't Look Deeper Executive Producer 2020
No Score Yet 92% Don't Look Deeper Director 2020
94% 81% This Is Us Director 2018 2020
38% 87% Reckless Executive Producer,
Director 		2014